Selected records of the State Archive in Levoča

Following World War II, trials of Nazi criminals and their collaborators were organized on the territory of restored Czechoslovakia. A three-tiered retributive justice system was established in the Slovak part of post-WWII Czechoslovakia by Regulation of the Slovak National Council no. 33/1945 on the “Punishment of Fascist Criminals, Occupants, Traitors and Collaborators and on the Establishment of People’s Judiciary.” District People’s Courts (Okresný ľudový súd) were established at district seats with jurisdiction over the territory of specific districts; this represented the second tier within the system of retributive justice in Slovakia. Within their jurisdiction fell all criminal offenses stipulated by Regulation No. 33/1945, with the exception of cases under the exclusive jurisdiction of the National Court (which tried only the leading officials of former Slovak Republic, 1939-1945). 

Spišský archív v Levoči 

Selected records of the State Archive in Levoča 

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Selected records of the post-war trials and investigative cases of the District People's Courts and the Local People's Courts pertaining to Slovaks and former Hlinka guard members accused of collaborating with the German security forces. Includes the trial records of individual Slovaks accused of denouncing their Jewish neighbors, the trial records of regional Hlinka Guard commanders responsible for the deportation of local Jews, as well as the trial records of major political defendants. Also consists of wartime files of the local gendarmerie stations pertaining to the arrest and roundup of local Jews (1940-1944), and trial records from the Regional Court in Levoča (1939-1944). 

Copyright Holder: Slovakia. Ministerstvo vnútra 

Consists of 15 individual Fonds arranged in fifteen series: 1. Fond Okresný súd v Levoči (District People's Court in Levoča), 1945-1947; 2. Fond Okresný ľudový súd v Gelnici (District People's Court in Gelnica), 1945-1946; 3. Fond Okresný ľudový súd v Kežmarku (District People's Court in Kežmarok), 1945-1947; 4. Okresný ľudový súd Poprad (District People's Court in Poprad), 1945-1947; 5. Okresný ľudový súd v Spišskej Novej Vsi (District People's Court in Spišská Nová Ves), 1945-1947; 6. Okresný ľudový súd v Spišskej Starej Vsi (District People's Court in Spišská Stará Ves), 1945; 7. Okresný ľudový súd v Starej Ľubovni (District People's Court in Stará Ľubovňa), 1945-1946; 8. Ľudový súd v Levoči (People's Court in Levoča), 1948; 9. Žandárska stanica Kežmarok (Gendarmerie station Kežmarok), 1942; 10. Žandárska stanica Spišská Stará Ves (Gendarmerie station Spišská Stará Ves), 1940; 11. Žandárska stanica Veľký Lipník (Gendarmerie station Veľký Lipník), 1944; 12. Okresné žandárske veliteľstvo Kežmarok (District Gendarmerie Command Post Kežmarok), 1943-1944; 13. Okresné žandárske velteľstvo Levoča (District Gendarmerie Command Post Levoča), 1941; 14. Krajský súd v Levoči (Regional Court in Levoča), 1939-1944; 15. Ľudový súd v Levoči (People's Court in Levoča), 1939-1944.